Category: Africa

Moshood Babatunde Abdul-Wasi Xenophobia is defined as hatred or fear of foreigners. Deriving its root from the Greek word xenos (foreign) and phobos (fear). In the context of South Africa, the term has come to…

Bilikis Mafe Fagbemi The question on everyone’s lips remains:” How on earth, could a people, which having experienced oppressions and suppressions under apartheid regime for three centuries; got helped from their fellow African brethren with other…

Tens of thousands of Ethiopians marched through the capital Wednesday in a government-organised rally condemning the murder of a group of Ethiopian Christians by Islamic State militants in Libya. The official rally appeared to be…

The Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international rights group is urging the UN peacekeepers to urgently intervene to free the nomadic women and children hostages being held by Christian anti-Balaka fighters in Central African Republic…

The South African Government, Wednesday closed its consulate in Lagos for fear of reappraisal attack that may likely follow the anti-xenophobic protests in parts of Nigeria. It was gathered that the consulate was shut to…

President Jacub Zuma of South African President Jacob Zuma will on Friday meets Nigerians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshi nationals resident in that country over the xenophobic attack on them. This is contained in a statement issued…

Following the verdict by an Egyptian court on Tuesday that sentenced the deposed President Muhammad Morsi to 20 years in prison, Leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Rashid Ghannouchi has called for a comprehensive reconciliation in…

By Moshood Hakeem On the 24th of June, 2012, President Morsi was elected by 51.7 per cent of Egyptian votes, defeating Ahmad Shafik, the erstwhile Prime Minister. On 30th June, he was sworn-in, thus becoming the…

Amnesty International has condemned the trial and sentencing of former President Mohammed Morsi of Egypt, describing it as a “sham”, and called for his release. A Cairo court on Tuesday sentenced him and 12 other…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to “urgently take legal action against the South African government before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to…